"I meant to help him in his work." "Ah, what a fool the man is! How could any man in his senses give up a thing of flesh and blood like you, for the sake of proving or trying to prove, that some people who lived five or six thousand years ago--if they ever lived at all--would have rendered themselves liable to imprisonment, without the option of a fine, if they lived in England since the passing of certain laws--recent laws, too, we must remember!" "Papa!" "Anyhow, you have done with him, my dear.

A man who can't see that crime is really a question of temperament, and sin invariably a question of geography--well, we'll say no more about it.

At what hour did you say he was coming ?" "Four.

I don't think I shall break down." "Break down?
Why on earth should you break down?
You have a mind to know, and you know your own mind.

That's everything.